Systolic blood pressure reading >140 mm Hg and/or a diastolic blood pressure reading >90 mm Hg.
What is hypertension?
100
A disorder involving insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion and resulting in the need for therapy that includes diet, exercise, oral medications, and possibly injectable medications
What is type 2 diabetes mellitus?
100
Point at which the person perceives pain and the amount of pain a person is willing to endure.
What is pain threshold and pain tolerance?
100
An ultrasound test which uses reflected sound waves to see how blood flows through a blood vessel. It helps doctors evaluate blood flow through major arteries and veins. It can show blocked or reduced blood flow through narrowing in the major arteries of the neck that could cause a stroke.
What is doppler test?
100
That is how often a manometer should be calibrated.
What is 6 to 12 months?
200
Temporary disappearance of sounds usually heard over the brachial artery, occurring when the cuff pressure is high and is gradually reduced, with the sounds again heard at a lower level of pressure.
What is auscultatory gap?
200
It is an elevated blood glucose level and low blood glucose level
What is hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia?
200
It is influenced by culture, stage of development, and gender.
What is factors that influence pain?
200
This is the pitch of the reflected sound waves caused by the movement of blood cells. If there is no blood flow, the pitch does not change.
What is doppler effect?
200
SpO2
What is oxygen saturation of arterial blood?
300
Difference between a patient's apical and radial pulse rates as counted simultaneously by two healthcare providers.
What is a pulse deficit?
300
A device used to determine the approximate concentration of glucose in the blood.
What is glucometer?
300
PQRSTU.
What is Provoked, Quality, Region/Radiation, Severity, Timing, Understanding?
300
valves close as ventricular filling ends.
What is tricuspid and mitral valves?
300
Temperature of >100*F, skin might be warm or hot, pale or flush, dry or diaphoretic. Chills, shivering, perhaps tachycardia, muscle or joint pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and restlessness.
What is symptoms of pyrexia or fever?
400
Patient movement, hypothermia, medications that cause vasoconstriction, peripheral edema, hypotension, and an abnormal hemoglobin level can effect this.
What is pulse-oximetry readings?
400
Where you do the pinprick on the finger.
What is lateral side?
400
An image or pictorial scale for young children, adults with cognitive difficulties, and patients who do not speak the same language.
What is Wong-Baker FACES Rating Scale and the Oucher pain scale?
400
Here are two examples: ibuprofen, celecoxib*
What is NSAIDs (Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs)
400
Temperature approximately 97* F to 99.5* F versus a temperature of 96.4* F to 99.1* F.
What is core body temperature and surface body temperature?
500
Drop in blood pressure of 15 mm Hg or more when a patient rises from a sitting to a standing position.
What is orthostatic hypotension?
500
This one thing (not eating) in a patients life that significantly alters the blood glucose levels in patients who have diabetes causing hyper or hypoglycemia.
What is stress?
500
A pain scale from 0-10 and a line scale.
What is a NRS (numerical rating scale) and VAS (visual analog scale)?
500
They typically experience onset of heart disease earlier, more typical angina symptoms, severe pain, and often undergo more invasive surgeries.
What is men's cardiac differences?
500
These are the 10 pulse points (please point to them on your body).
What is superficial temporal, external maxillary, carotid, brachial, ulnar, radial, femoral, popliteal, dorsalis pedis, posterior tibial?